The Newport Harbor Hotel is a great home base from which to explore Newport. Staff are helpful and friendly and the bed and room are comfortable. It is an easy place to launch a walking tour of the city, particularly the Cliff Walk and the mansions on Bellevue, as well as other sites such as the Redwood Library, Trinity Church, and St. Mary's church. It had free parking while we were there (we were there off season, so this might change), which was fantastic.

My wife and I stayed here on 3/12 for one night and will never return. We booked our stay on Priceline for a great deal of $48.00 oer night. We checked in at approx 11:30 pm and when we did the Front Desk clerk was on her way out for a smoke break and saw us and almost acted as though we were interupting her. We checked into the room and went to take showers and noticed the soap dishes had not been cleaned from the previous guests, there was hair and caked on soap, the shower squeeled when you turned it on (when you could get it to work), when we unfolded a couple of the towels we found them to be dirty and just refolded, and worst of all we noticed that under the seat and inside the toilet bowl had feces on them. Our comlaints were reported to the Front Desk Manager who offered no soulution other than he would alert housekeeping so this did not happen again, Horrible expierience, not recommeded for anyone. If traveling to Newport I would highly suggest the Hotel Viking, some rooms are small but the Spa, Hot Tub and Indoor Pool are great!

Got the hotel bill in the morning. There were fees that were never quoted to me when I booked online. When I inquired before I went to the hotel, they told me it was the total price of my stay. There were two extra fees which I was not told of. I went to the manager and asked why I was not told on the internet or when I called in person, and he said we don't like to advertise that we charge these fees. So if you want to pay hidden fees, go right ahead and stay here, if not go somewhere else.

Poor experience with thin walls of the hotel rooms - coughing and conversations from next door, the regular cadence of the elevator door opening/closing. If you go, do request a room away from the elevator and on the 4th floor to limit that noise.

The location is ideal, easy walking to restaurants and shops along Thames Street and several wharfs. Free parking is also nice.

The hotel is very clean and the bathrooms are modern. Just bring ear-plugs.